How do you like your sandstone? How about with easy access, harbour views, steep and pumpy, and close to home?

Nestled around a picturesque harbour, Australia's largest city has hundreds of neat little sandstone cliffs providing pleasant single-pitch sport and trad climbing and awesome bouldering. Sydney's famous beaches are also punctuated with tottering sea cliffs, offering more adventurous climbing right beneath suburbia!

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Catherine Destivelle on Clocks(22) at Balls Head. Photograph by Simon Carter. For more fantastic pictures of climbing around Sydney, NSW and Australia, check out his websiteOnsight Photography.